- The Seagate Mozaic 4+ platform increases hard drive capacity from 30TB to 44TB
- It is the world’s first and only HAMR-based platform
- An unnamed hyperscaler is already using it at scale
Data storage giant Seagate has unveiled its next-generation Mozaic 4+ platform, revealing a number of higher capacities per single hard drive.
Seagate boasts that Mozaic 4+ is the industry’s first and only heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR)-based storage platform to be deployed at scale, and that it has been qualified by an unnamed “leading hyperscale cloud provider” in configurations up to 44TB.
And this seems to be just the beginning where the company wants to increase from today’s 4 TB per disk for 10 TB per disk, resulting in capacities of up to 100 TB.
Speaking about increased demand from cloud and data center activity globally, CEO Dave Mosley said: “Seagate’s HAMR-based Mozaic products deliver the scale, performance and efficiency customers need to unlock the full potential of their data.”
Although Seagate’s latest-generation technology is currently being positioned as “critical” for data center infrastructure, training data and historical archives, it’s only a matter of time before this form of high-capacity storage becomes more democratized for consumer and smaller-scale commercial use.
“Whether for large-scale model training or sophisticated fine-tuning, companies building and using these AI models have found that innovations in high-capacity hard drives like HAMR have become critical to the quality and speed of their output,” added TECHnalysis Research President Bob O’Donnell,
In terms of the upgraded platform, Seagate claims an infrastructure efficiency improvement of about 47% in 1-exabyte deployment compared to standard 30TB drives, resulting in a reduction of about 100 sq ft in the data center footprint. It also means that customers can unlock up to 0.8 million kWh in annual energy savings in this example.
The unnamed hyperscaler is already receiving Mozaic 4+ drive “volumes,” and Seagate plans to scale production for wider availability from here on out.
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